Re: FS: 486DX2-80 (8MB) complete system less monitor

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From: Jeff Blair
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <30FD39EF.609F@tuns.ca>, gregorse@tuns.ca says...

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>I think what Micheal is saying is that Pentiums _must_ have a minimum of
>8 megs to work. I believe that it is a physical restriction on the
>Pentium processors.
>

Well, if that's what he meant then it would be wrong the limitation is 
that memory has to be added in pairs in order to provide a 64 bit path to 
memory (although I've heard that with the new Opti chipset memory can be 
added in single banks).  You just will not see 4Meg Pentium systems due to 
this restriction and that 2Meg chips are very uncommon.
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Jeff Blair
blairj@is.dal.ca
jblair@ug.cs.dal.ca
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

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From: blairj@is.dal.ca (Jeff Blair)
Subject: Re: FS: 486DX2-80 (8MB) complete system less monitor
Date: 1996/01/18
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